Is anyone getting reasonable speed out of their Kaiser when using it as a modem?
I'm on an unlimited data plan with 7.2 mbps HDSPA.
With my USB modem suppled by the operator I usually get around 4-5 mbps or so.
With the Kaiser I can never reach more than 1.2 mbps to be pretty much exact.
Even worse is surfing on the actual Kaiser, I never reach over 0.8 mbps and in general it feels just as slow as my crappy old first gen 3G phone from Sony Ericsson.
Between the video driver debacle, poor bluetooth implementation and the poor data performance I'm quite inclined to just return the phone before my 30 days of return policy are up...
I am a new user of a Samsung Captivate on AT&T, right now I'm not rooted and running the stock software, I generally love the phone, it's much better than my iPhone 3GS and I don't have many issues, except that my upload speed is slow.
I got tired of dropped calls on my iphone and my knowledge of other non-iphone AT&T users seems to indicate that the iphone is the problem with dropped call, the captivate holds on to a call, MUCH better than my old iphone and the download speeds are good, streaming music at High Quality via audiogalaxy is working great.
So I don't think their is anything wrong with my phone.
Testing the phone at work, which is generally has excellent reception for AT&T. I get 1.5 - 2mbps down, which is about what I used to get on my iPhone. But I only get around 150kbps up, my 3GS was even much faster than that in this location usually averaging 250kbps and this phone is supposed an upload speed closer to the iPhone 4 I believe.
Any captivate users on AT&T have a similar issue?
I'm in a terrible reception area at work - would need to test at home...
Currently 128k Down and 256k up
I'm kind of wondering if it's a problem left over from moving my sim from my iphone3GS to the samsung captivate, I had to call to get them to change a data plan and to reset my voicemail to the standard old school voicemail.
I've been using the phone for a week and I've never gone over 250kbps with this phone, but according to the specs I should be getting much better upload speeds.
In central NJ AT&T is actually pretty good and we have consistent 3G coverage, so I it's not like I'm out in the boonies somewhere and that's why my upload is slow.
Guess I should call AT&T.
Your upload speed is normally much lower than your download speed. If you were to do the same test on your broadband at home, you would get maybe if you are lucky 3 mega up for every 30 mega down.
Its how all isps are. The problem is not because of your sim. Also keep in mind that a heavily congested area (new York) will always have bad speeds. The more people with data hogging devices, the slower speeds you will see.
Try doing the bandwidth test again in the middle of.the night or early morning when most people are asleep. You might see some very nice speeds then.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
I got my answer
I didn't realize that AT&T disabled HSUPA, I just knew the hardware supported it. and since I'm on the stock firmware that is what is keeping me at 150 - 250kbps.
Thanks for the help guys, it wasn't a big thing like I said but I wanted to know if the problem was my old sim card.
Is there anything like this for our captivate?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087729
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11318194&postcount=7
They seemed interesting and here in dallas im getting anywhere from .10 Mbps to 2.1 Mbps...
anyone might have a better setting for these?
That is just enabling HSUPA, which many ROMs do.
If you want it to work for data and not degrade call quality considerably, you must either be on a I9000 ROM or using CM7/MIUI
Oh... so since im using phoenix rom I shouldnt worry about it? =/
Bummer thought I could get faster speed than 1.5 MBPS in Dallas...
Thank you.
sixk said:
Oh... so since im using phoenix rom I shouldnt worry about it? =/
Bummer thought I could get faster speed than 1.5 MBPS in Dallas...
Thank you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Upon further review... it looks like the OP of that thread got some positive results tweaking those settings in build.prop
However others got mixed results.
I tested it out quickly and got a slight improvement in download speed but slight decrease in upload speed. I will try it again in a different area this evening, though, because I am testing it in a building with a metal roof and spotty coverage...
I've played around with this the last few months. I've had mixed results. Sometimes it seemed like it got me an increase sometimes not so much. I'm in a rural area and as such I have never seen 5Mbps down. I have seen as high as 4.30 Mbps once in a blue moon mostly after midnight. Its certainly a plausible idea but I cannot say with definite certainty that this will give a speed increase.
I tried it out too but it seems like it is depended on the time and traffic of the server...
Ive seen from .5 to 2.9 on my cappy...
edit: any other results or test to see if there might be a better setting?
Also just updated mine to mosaic.
trickery
I tried putting them in my Nostalgia 1.4 build.prop. See if it makes difference.
sixk said:
Is there anything like this for our captivate?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087729
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11318194&postcount=7
They seemed interesting and here in dallas im getting anywhere from .10 Mbps to 2.1 Mbps...
anyone might have a better setting for these?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm in frisco and just hit 3 mbs. Get that in both Denton and here. Have seen as much as 4.5 in both.
I'm on the border of Dallas/Richardson and I get terrible speeds on my Cap. At home I get around 200KBPS if I am lucky. On Monday I was in Frisco with a friend who has an HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon, his 3G speeds were 7000KBPS down while his 4G was 1.7MBPS down. In Frisco I did receive 400KBPS down - wonderful right?
I just tested again at work here in Richardson and out of three test I had network failures. The one test that worked was 67kbps down. This is using HSDPA and a signal strength of -75 dBm 19 asu.
I'm using the newest version of Cognition on my phone. Calls have good clarity and when I am using wifi I get 1.5MBPS down. I don't know why my data service is so bad.
Update: So after typing this post and tested again and got 643kbps down 76 up. I haven't moved from my desk.
That's wild. Metropcs speeds is what you got.
Worst area for me is Rockwall. But at&t is kinda non existent out there.
i'm also on andromeda but got same results on other roms as well.
This is my first smartphone on AT&T and because of where I work I was allowed to get a unlimited data package.
I might try another kernel and modem. Its pretty frustrating that my speeds are so slow.
I'm in Fort Worth and I usually average 4mb down 1.2mb up. I'm also running Phoenix Unleashed 8 with JK4
What is your settings at?
if you did the mod.
I am running stock 2.2 and don't use 3g a whole lot (usually attached to Wifi one way or another), but reading this post I figured I would try running a few tests. With 3 bars of signal strength I got a download speed varying between .86 mbps and 2.07 mbps down over six tests. Upload was never much more than about .40 mbps though. At home my Wifi runs around 9 mbps to just over about 17 mbps for download on the Captivate. The is in north GA, not near a major metropolis or anything.
Im curious about rpicaso's setting for this. Im gettin about the same speed as you bytheme.... i want to be faster!!! haha
Wish it worked.
Rockwall has pretty bad 3G coverage. I have better 2G coverage than 3G at home, so I usually stick to 2G+WiFi. 3G seemed to draining my battery.
I usually pickup towers from across the lake in Rowlett.
gibson3659 said:
Rockwall has pretty bad 3G coverage. I have better 2G coverage than 3G at home, so I usually stick to 2G+WiFi. 3G seemed to draining my battery.
I usually pickup towers from across the lake in Rowlett.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe they'll build it up when bush gets finished. I don't get how they have no 3g in Rockwall. I'm in Krum (little po dunk town nw of Denton) right now and getting 3 mbs. Rockwall is a good size city with money.
boborone said:
Maybe they'll build it up when bush gets finished. I don't get how they have no 3g in Rockwall. I'm in Krum (little po dunk town nw of Denton) right now and getting 3 mbs. Rockwall is a good size city with money.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
but there's a lot of money in Krum...
Not so much up in Gainesville, but we get a good 1.5-2 mbps
Any time I run a speed test being either on WiFi or LTE the speed test will shoot to the speeds it should get for less than a second. Than the speed will drop and drop and drop. With my 2 year old htc one testing lte network I average between 40 to 50 mbps. The fastest the edge hit was 30 once averaging around 20. And my network speeds at home are 58/28. On ipad, iPhone, tablet, and htc one all achieve such no problem. The edge hasn't made it past 26 and averages 15-20. Anyone have any idea what could cause this? Could it be a problem with the phone itself? Thanks.
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, I'm new here.
Pretty much I live in the country with no solid internet options, but I have full cellphone service, so I opt to USB Tethering.
So here's the run down on my USB Tethering to my PC
-Samsung Galaxy J3
-USB 3.0 port with a 2.0 cable
-AT&T Network
-PDANet/Foxfi
Now, the first thing my online gaming buddies said when I asked them about this is "Well you're prolly just getting throttled."
AT&T only throttles my Hotspot, and boy do they throttle it hard!
My USB Tethering stays consistent throughout the month, speed tests averaging from 9-12Mbps.
That seems REALLY slow, seeing as how 4G averages around 42Mbps on the low end and up into the 100's from what I've read.
So what am I doing wrong, what can I do to improve my slow speeds?
I live in Terre Haute,IN and i'm lucky to hit 20 on LTE, Typically it's due to basically not living in NYC or LA or similar. If it aint a huge town you dont get much from carriers